Miyagawa Takanori

Miyagawa Takanori (1592-1667) was a samurai loyal to the Tokugawa clan.

Biography
Miyagawa Takanori was born in 1592 in Mito in Hitachi Province (present-day Ibaraki Prefecture), and he was one of the samurai who enlisted in the ranks of the Tokugawa army that besieged Osaka Castle in the summer of 1615. Wielding a spear, he unhorsed Hideyori Toyotomi, and he was recognized for this. Ieyasu Tokugawa granted him 200 koku in Hitachi, and he lived as a peaceful landowner after the Osaka Campaign.